Pamela Jo
Full Member
- Oct 26, 2021
Rebecca F Kuang rejects idea authors should not write about other races. Her opinion seems sensible to me.
As a reader I respond to authenticity. I'd rather there were more writers telling their own historical stories. I just read Neil Jordan's novel on an Irish hero of the 1798 rebellion, Edward Fritzgerald. He fought in the Am Rev where he acquired not a slave-but a black servant. Jordan chose 1st person of the black servant to tell us the story. I wish he hadn't. There is no real life in it. Whether trying too hard or whatever the prob is-it doesnt work. Certainly hasn't sold many copies. Too removed and academic is my guess. He doesnt live in his characters skin. And how could he, really?
As a reader I respond to authenticity. I'd rather there were more writers telling their own historical stories. I just read Neil Jordan's novel on an Irish hero of the 1798 rebellion, Edward Fritzgerald. He fought in the Am Rev where he acquired not a slave-but a black servant. Jordan chose 1st person of the black servant to tell us the story. I wish he hadn't. There is no real life in it. Whether trying too hard or whatever the prob is-it doesnt work. Certainly hasn't sold many copies. Too removed and academic is my guess. He doesnt live in his characters skin. And how could he, really?